Though not a grave security risk for Mac users, a new Trojan horse called "OSX/HellRTS.D" has been identified by Intego (developers of VirusBarrier X). The new trojan is a variant of a backdoor server called "HellRaiser," which was developed to allow full control of an infected PC by a remote attacker.

Because of the enhanced security features of OS X, such as "sandboxing" techniques for running code, the development of self-propagating "viruses" is difficult and to date we have not seen any for Mac OS X; however, malicious software developers have r